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UNITED STATES Patented May 5, 1903.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727, 6 a d M y 1903-Application filed April 14, 1902 Serial No. 102,771. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: 7 1

Be it known that LFRA K M. LUGORE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lincoln, county of Lancaster, and State of Nebraska, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-ReportBooks, ofwhich I the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to an improvement in books forkeeping car-re:

ports and to the special construction and arwith a cover and form-sheetsremovably and flexibly secured together.

Further objects of the invention will appear from anexamination of thedrawings and the following description and claims.

The invention relates to a car-report book provided with a cover formedof a front portion, a back portion, and an intermediate portion flexiblysecured together. I The invention relates, further, to a car-report bookprovided with a cover formed of :a

back portion, a front portion, and an intermediate portion fiexiblysecured together and form-sheets detachably secured thereto be. tweenthe intermediate cover and the front;

' month on such division alone.

and back covers.

The invention relates, further, to a car-re port book provided with aremovable formsheet having two sets of forms printed on each side of theblank in reverse relation to each other, the blanks on'each-side of the;sheet forming a continuation one of the other,

and in reverse relation.

The invention consists in the features, details, and combinationshereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a blank sheet showing one sideof a removable form-sheet for a car-report book constructed inaccordance with my improvements; Fig. 2, a perspective View of the bookwith the form-sheets in removable position and ,constructed'inaccordance with these improvements; and Fig. 3, a cross-sectional viewof the same, taken on line 3 ofFig. 2 looking in the direction of thearrow. I

In the art to which this invention relates it is well-known that thereis a great deal of trouble and expense involved in the keeping ofreports of the number and kinds of freightcars handled by the variousfreight-conductors of the difierent railroads. At present it iscustomary for freight-conductors to have .a book in which to keep arecord of the cars handled, &c., and then at the end of each run totransfer from said book to a reportsheet the necessary information tomake their report to the car-accountant of the railroad, the book beingretained by the conductor until full, when it is turned over to thetrain-master and a new book issued. It will be seen, therefore, thatthis entails a tremendous amount of labor and expense. Take, forinstance, on a single run of one of the large roads of the railroads ofthe country Where two hundred freight-trains are handled each day on onedivision thereof with twenty-five cars to the train, it means that fivethousand cars are handled each day, or one hundred and fifty thousandeach thirtyday month. Figuring car-initials as averaging four lettersand car-numbers as averaging four figures, the movement of each car onone division of the road would therefore require something like twentycharacters in making out their reports to the car-accountant, or a totalof three million characters a The principal object of this invention,therefore, is to provide means by which a large saving of this initialand number writing can be obtained by providinga book and blank of suchcon- :struction. and arrangement that the book record and report for thecar-accountant are written simultaneously in duplicate and in propershape for the car'- accountant and train-master, one copy of which maybe forwarded to the car-accountant and the other turned over to thetrain-master or retained by the conductor. It will therefore be seenthat at least one-half of the labor and expense will be saved .by suchimprovement, and also that the danger of errors liable to result fromtranscribing from the memorandum-book to the report-sheet for thecar-accountant is entirely obviated, all of which will be appreciated bythose skilled in the art.

In constructing a book in accordance with these improvements anddescribing particularly the form-sheet to be used therein I make a sheethaving form portions a and b on each side and perforated at c to permitthe folding thereof. the figure, contains the proper heading, withcolumns arranged underneath to receive the report of thefreight-conductor or trainman, and is printed with the main heading onthe form portion a and the continuation thereof on the form portion 17in reverse relation to that shown on the form portion a-that is, theheading of the form portion a begins at the top, while that of the formportion 1), begins at the bottom. The other side of the sheet islikewise printed; but the form portion a is on the opposite side of theportion 1), with its heading at the top, the reason being that when theform portion a is being used the sheet is folded along the perforatedline and a sheet of interleafing carbon placed between the two sheets,so that the writin g on the form portion a will be transferred to theform portion on the sheet, thus making two records thereof. In usingthese sheets I make a cover portion for the book of peculiar formationand which is applicable to these kinds of sheets only. This cover has afront portion CZ, a back portion e, and an intermediate portion f,practically making two books, all flexibly secured or hinged together at9, so that they may be closed or moved in the direction indicated by thedotted arrows in Fig. 3. In using this cover portion with theform-sheets, as above described, one form-sheet is folded with a sheetof carbon-paper and placed, as shown in Fig.2, with the main headinga ofthe same between the front cover and the intermediate cover. A secondsheet is folded with a sheet of interleafing carbonpaper and with theheading on the form portion 17 at the top and inserted between theintermediate and back covers. This arrangement is necessary anddesirable in that it will be seen from an inspection of Fig. 1 that arecord of ninety carsmay be kept-forty on the main form portion of thesheet and fifty on the supplementary form portion 6. entries they aremade on the main form portion of the sheet, arranged between the frontand intermediate covers, and instead of it I being necessary for theconductor to take out the sheet and place a new one to make reports foradditional cars or to reverse carbonsheet en route all he has to do isto make such additional report of cars on the sheet interposed betweenthe intermediate and back covers. These form-sheets are loosely held inposition, preferably by means of a rubber band It, passed around thesheets where they are adjacent to the interleafing-cover.

The principal advantages incident to the use of a car-report bookconstructed in accordance with these improvements are, first,

The side of the sheet, as shown in v In making the first forty I theenormous saving of labor and expense by conductors and trainmen; second,the obviating of errors arising from the old methods; third, the savingof expense in the car-accountantsolfice in that the conductors sheetscan be filed therein, thus obviating the necessity for the usualretranscribing of the same, and, fourth, the facility with which recordsmay be kept and inspected, all of which will be understood andappreciated by those skilled in the art.

I claiml. A car-report book of the class described provided with aremovable form-sheet having two blanks printed on each side of the sheetin inverted relation to each other so that one of the blanks in order tobe read must be held in inverted position with reference to the other,the blanks on each side of the sheet arranged so that oneforms acontinuation of the other or main form, substantially as described.

2. In a car-report book of the class'described, a duplicate form-sheethaving two blank forms on one sidea main and a supplementaryr-arrangedin inverted relation to each other so that one of the blanks inorder tobe read must be held in inverted position with reference to the other,and two similar blank forms on the opposite side of the same sheet-mainand supplementaryso arranged that when the sheet is folded the blankform on one side corresponds or registers with its duplicate form on theopposite side, substantially as described.

3. In a car-report book of the class described, a duplicate form sheethaving a main form with its heading at the top and a supplementarycontinuation thereof with its heading at the bottom on one side of thesheet and inverted, and similar forms on the opposite side of the samesheet so arranged that when the sheet is folded the blank form on oneside corresponds or registers with its duplicate form on the oppositeside, substan tially as described.

4:. In a car report book of the class de= scribed, the combination oftwo flexibly-connected outer-cover leaves, an intermediate innercoverleaf flexibly connected there= with, a blank form sheet removably ar-'ranged on one side of the intermediate coverleaf and provided withduplicate forms thereon, each of a width exceeding that of eithercover-leaf and having carbon-paper arranged between such blank forms,such forms consisting of a main form with its heading at the top and asupplementary continuation thereof with its heading at the bottom on oneside of the sheet in inverted relation to each other, and similar formsarranged in the same relation to each other on the opposite side of thesheet so that when the sheet is folded the forms on one side thereofregister with the duplicate forms on the opposite side and a similarseparable and independently-removable blank form-sheet removablyarranged on the opposite side of the intercuring sueh'blank form-sheetsin position on mediate cover-leaf provided with duplicate opposite sidesof the inner-cover leaf, sub- 10 blank forms arranged in the same manneras stantially as described. those on the blank form-sheet at the oppo- 5site side of the inner-cover leaf, each of a FRANK LUOORE' widthexceeding that of either cover-leaf and Witnesses: having carbon-paperarranged between such I. H. HATFIELD, blank forms, and means forremovably se- S. K. KIER.

